After
you read the tales of piracy in John S. Burnett's Dangerous Waters:
Modern Piracy and Terror on the High Seas, you probably won't
want to go above decks in the dark anytime soon.

In 1992, Burnett was
traveling solo across the South China Sea aboard his 32-foot sloop Unicorn,
when she was boarded by a group of Indonesian pirates. Handing over what
little he had onboard, Burnett escaped the ordeal with a nothing more
than a rifle-butt-induced headache. This encounter led him to investigate
21st-century piracy. The resulting book delves into the fateful voyages
aboard the pirate-prone tanker Petro Concord, which was attacked by pirates
twice in 2000. He also details his time onboard a Very Large Crude Carrier
and addresses the proactive measures being taking to combat these modern
plunderers.

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